Don’t Blame Government Benefits For Inflation—Blame The Modern Economy
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Working-Class Americans Are Standing Up for Themselves—and the Left Is Denouncing Them
Does America Hate the “Poorly Educated?”
[2014] THE REAL AGENDA OF THE GATES FOUNDATION
THE REAL AGENDA OF THE GATES FOUNDATION
“We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.” – Gore Vidal
China’s ‘collapse’ not happening any time soon
Is China Transforming the World?
Is China Transforming the World?
From speeches by president Xi Jinping, including the one he gave at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2017, journalists only wanted to retain his support of globalization—that is, his praise of free trade without obstacles—and a denunciation of protectionism. It is clear that the Chinese president was saying that “economic globalization has provided a powerful driving force for world growth, by facilitating the movement of capital and goods, the advancement of science, technology and human civilization, as well as exchanges between peoples.”1. What a sweet song in the ears of the neoliberals! Nevertheless, we should not hide the setbacks and problems, also underlined in this same speech: “Globalization is a double-edged sword.… The contradiction between capital and labor is accentuated.… The gaps between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South, are constantly widening.… The richest [elements] represent 1 percent of the world’s population, but have more wealth than the remaining 99 percent.”2
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The Empire Strikes Back Against Mexican President AMLO
As The Economist urges Mexican voters to vote for anyone who isn’t AMLO the US government is up to its old tricks: funneling money to political opposition groups.
The Empire Strikes Back Against Mexican President AMLO
Marx on technology
The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.” At almost 150-pages, it’s really a book in itself, a staggeringly dense and expansive discussion that could easily standalone—not only as a brilliant exegesis of capitalist machinery, but also as a sweeping social history of technology. At its broadest reach, the chapter is a vivid demonstration of historical materialism in action, of Marx’s method put through its dialectical paces. As ever with Marx, his footnotes aren’t to be passed over glibly: they’re worth studying, pondering over for the nuggets of insight they contain.
Marx on technology
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